Add your Outlook.com account in Outlook for Windows

Using Outlook gives you the opportunity to access many different types of email accounts from one place. If you have a Microsoft email account that ends in @outlook.com, @live.com, @hotmail.com, or @msn.com, follow the steps given to add your account to Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2013 or to Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

If prompted, enter your password again, then select OK, and Finish to start using Outlook.

Note: You can use these steps to add your first account to Outlook or additional accounts.

What would you like to do?

You can use an Outlook.com account (formerly Hotmail) with an Outlook 2010 or an Outlook 2007 account.

Although Microsoft currently supports only Outlook 2007 versions 12.0.6680.5000 and later, you can use a supported or an unsupported version to access your email account. Using a supported version gives you full access to your Microsoft personal email account, which includes access to your email, calendar, and contacts. Using an unsupported version gives you access to the email in your account, but you won't be able to get to your calendar, contacts, or tasks.

In Outlook 2007, select the Help menu, and then select About Microsoft Office Outlook.

In the About Microsoft Office Outlook dialog box, the Outlook 2007 version number that you're interested in is on the first line, directly after the words Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. If there's another version number at the end of the first line in your dialog box, disregard it.

The following screenshot shows the location of the Outlook 2007 version number on the first line in the dialog box.

Do one of the following, depending on whether your Outlook 2007 version is supported or unsupported:

If you can't update Outlook 2007 to a supported version, for example because a policy of your organization doesn't allow it, go to Step 3: Start the new-account setup process. This path will give you access to your email, but you won't be able to get to your calendar, contacts, and tasks.

To complete the new account setup process, perform one of the following two procedures in this section, depending on whether you're using a supported or an unsupported version of Outlook 2007.

Add the new account to your supported version of Outlook 2007

In the Add New E-mail Account - Auto Account Setup dialog box, in the Your Name box, enter your name or a friendly name or nickname. This is the sender name that recipients of your email messages will see.

In the E-mail Address text box, enter the email address of the email account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.

In the Password text box, enter the password for the account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.

In the Retype Password text box, enter the password again.

Select Next.

Outlook 2007 adds and then connects to the new email account.

Important: You're done! You've completed all of the necessary procedures for configuring Outlook 2007 to access your Microsoft personal email account. Don't perform the next procedure, Add the new account to your unsupported version of Outlook 2007.

For Outgoing server (SMTP), enter the number 25 in the text box for the port, and for Use the following type of encrypted connection, select TLS.

Tips:

Before you enter 25 in the text box for Outgoing server (SMTP), it's a good idea to check your firewall software to see if port 25 is available. If you check and port 25 isn't available, enter 587 in the text box for Outgoing server (SMTP).

If the port number that you enter in this case isn't available, you might get an error message when Outlook 2007 tries to connect to your email account. If you get an error message about this, come back to the Advanced tab in the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box and enter the other port number (25 or 587).

Choose OK to close the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.

In the In the Add New E-mail Account - Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, choose Next.

If you change your Outlook.com account password, you must also update the information in Outlook. After you change your password on the Outlook.com website, update the password that is saved in Outlook.

On the File tab. click Account Settings > Account Settings.

On the E-mail tab, click the Outlook.com account, and then click Change.

With the Outlook Connector, you can view your Outlook.com calendar in Outlook. This includes other people’s calendars that have been shared with you. By managing your calendars in Outlook, you can take advantage of the time-management features that Outlook offers such as viewing multiple calendars at the same time. With your Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2007 account and the Outlook Connector, you can also:

View tasks and flagged messages under your appointments on the days they're due

Categorize your appointments with custom color categories

Overlay multiple calendars

Additionally, any changes that you make to your Outlook.com calendar in Outlook are synchronized automatically with the Web version in your Outlook.com account.